The incident occurred early Wednesday in Valparaíso affected three properties, left four hospitalized people and evidenced, according to the parliamentarian, the serious deterioration and abandonment of the heritage sector.
The early morning of Wednesday, a great fire razed with three properties in the historic Puerto de Valparaíso neighborhood, leaving 27 people affected, four of them hospitalized at the Carlos Van Buren hospital, and at least two still missing people.
Given this serious fact, deputy Tomás Lagomarsino intervened in Congress to alert about the critical situation in which the sector is. He assured that the lack of maintenance and inaction of the State have generated an insecure environment, where buildings in ruins and without inspection, prone to new emergencies.
“Valparaíso, and in particular the Puerto neighborhood, has a level of abandonment with buildings in deplorable conditions, many of them previously burned and today completely unprotected,” said Lagomarsino.
The deputy also questioned the role of the heritage protection system, which he accused of putting obstacles that prevent the development, maintenance and safety of the city.
“Today Valparaíso seems like a museum that cannot be touched, that nothing can be done, because of the amount of obstacles imposed by the heritage system to make modifications, arrangements or conservation projects in such basic aspects as the electrical installation, which has led to situations like the one we are living,” he added.
Lagomarsino also regretted that the fire affects one of the commercial foci of the sector, directly impacting the traditional company of Cecinas Sethmacher, located in one of the sinister properties.
“We cannot continue to have Valparaíso in a crystal, such as a museum that cannot be intervened. Enough of the obstacles that prevent Valparaíso, and in particular to the Puerto neighborhood, advance. If not, we will fill ourselves even more with burned buildings, eriazos and abandoned constructions. We need the State to be present in Valparaíso to end its abandonment,” he concluded.
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